What The Capital Projects does

The Capital Projects Group is a Santa Monica, California-based capital projects consulting firm founded in 2013 by Principal Chris Sterparn. The firm delivers strategic, management, and technical consulting services to institutional, commercial, and public sector clients across the full capital project lifecycle — from capital strategy and planning through design, procurement, construction, and operations. Core service lines include Capital Projects Strategy, Facilities Consulting, Project Delivery Advisory (including P3 advisory), Cost Management (cost estimating, constructability review, scheduling, quantity take-off), Value and Risk Consulting, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, and Total Cost of Ownership consulting. Service delivery relies on direct engagement by Principals and Senior Consultants rather than channel partners or broad marketing campaigns, and pricing is quote-based per engagement.

The firm's client base spans nine market sectors: healthcare (Kaiser Permanente, City of Hope, Children's Hospital LA, Scripps, UCI Healthcare), higher education science and engineering (Caltech, USC, UC San Diego, Northwestern, University of Chicago), higher education academic/classroom/administrative, K-12 education (LAUSD), public sector (LA County, MTA, Administrative Office of the Courts), courthouses, residential, cultural (California Science Center, Getty Foundation), international (projects in Taiwan, South Korea, Brazil), and private foundations (Annenberg, Conrad N. Hilton). Per the firm's own materials, Principals and Senior Consultants have consulted on more than 350 institutional projects totaling over $10 billion in put-in-place construction, with individual projects ranging from $5 million to over $1 billion in size.

The firm is privately held, founder/management-owned, with no disclosed institutional investment, no parent company, and no subsidiaries. Headcount is reported at 1–10 employees, consistent with a boutique consultancy model. Revenue is not publicly disclosed, and there is no evidence of funding rounds, acquisitions, partnerships, or alliances. The firm maintains no patents, no certifications, no awards, and no disclosed AI/ML capabilities, positioning it as a traditional expert-judgment-driven professional services firm rather than a technology-enabled platform.

Name

The Capital Projects

Legal name

The Capital Projects Group

Website

https://thecapitalprojectsgroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Capital Projects Group is a Santa Monica-based boutique consultancy founded in 2013 that provides strategic, management, and technical capital projects consulting — including cost management, P3 advisory, and value/risk consulting — to institutional, commercial, and public sector clients across healthcare, higher education, and public sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Capital Projects Consulting

akta.pro primary industry

Project Management & Owner’s Rep Services for School Capital Projects (EDAEABAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Facilities, Capital Planning & Campus Safety Administration (EDADAKAI), Public Asset & Investment Management (BPAIAEAG)

Keywords

• Capital projects consulting
• Cost management services
• Value engineering consulting
• Facilities consulting
• Project delivery advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Monica

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Capital Projects Consulting Services: The firm provides comprehensive consulting services across strategic, management, and technical domains including strategic capital projects consulting, project delivery advisory, P3 advisory, cost management, value and risk consulting, life cycle cost analysis, and total cost of ownership. Revenue is generated through professional services fees for consulting engagements with institutional, commercial, and public sector clients.

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

The Capital Projects Group is a capital projects consulting firm that delivers strategic, management, and technical advisory services across the full capital project lifecycle. Core offerings include capital projects strategy, project delivery advisory (including P3 advisory), cost management (cost estimating, constructability review, scheduling, quantity take-off), value and risk consulting, life cycle cost analysis, and Total Cost of Ownership consulting for healthcare, higher education, K–12, public sector, courthouse, residential, cultural, international, and private foundation clients.

Product overview

The Capital Projects Group is a comprehensive capital projects consulting firm that provides services through a unified platform of strategic, management, and technical consulting offerings. The core offerings include Capital Projects Strategy Services (encompassing cost management, value and risk consulting, and life cycle cost analysis), Facilities Consulting (spanning healthcare, higher education, K-12, public, courts, residential, cultural, international, and foundation sectors), Project Delivery Advisory (including P3 advisory and procurement strategy), and Cost Management Services (including cost estimating, scheduling, and constructability review). These services work together to provide end-to-end capital projects consulting from feasibility through project completion.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Capital Projects Strategy Services Capital projects consulting combining strategic, management, and technical expertise, including capital strategy, evidence-based decision-making facilitation, capital planning, budget development, programmatic/parametric/systems-based cost modeling, value engineering and value management, bid evaluation and analysis, life cycle cost analysis, and Total Cost of Ownership consulting for institutional, commercial, and public sector clients.
• Facilities Consulting Strategic facilities consulting organized by market sector, covering healthcare, higher education, K-12 education, public sector, courthouses, residential, cultural facilities, international projects, and private foundations for institutional, commercial, and public sector clients.
• Project Delivery Advisory Advisory services that help owners select project delivery methods, including P3 (Public-Private Partnership) advisory and procurement strategy consulting for capital construction projects.
• Cost Management Services Preconstruction cost engineering including risk management, constructability review, scheduling and schedule review, architectural, structural, MEP, and landscape quantity take-off and pricing, general requirements and general conditions analysis, vendor and subcontractor pricing outreach, and project cost reporting.
• Value and Risk Consulting Value engineering, value management, risk consulting, life cycle cost analysis (NPV and IRR analysis), and Total Cost of Ownership consulting to optimize project economics across the capital project lifecycle.

Quantifiable outcome

• Projects totaling over $10B of put in place construction completed
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers23 records

Segments10 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Arcadis: Global design and consultancy firm with a strong cost and project management practice (including CallisonRTKL, IBI). Comparable in providing cost management, program management, and advisory services across healthcare, higher education, and public infrastructure.
• Turner & Townsend: Global cost management and project management consultancy serving institutional, public, and commercial clients on capital programs. Directly comparable as a fee-based owner's-side cost and project advisory firm with overlapping healthcare, higher-ed, and public-sector practices.
• Faithful+Gould (AtkinsRéalis): Cost and project management consultancy within AtkinsRéalis serving institutional and public-sector clients. Directly comparable as a fee-based PM/cost advisor with healthcare, higher-ed, and public-sector verticals similar to TCPG.
• Hill International: Construction consulting firm specializing in program and project management, owner's representation, and claims management for public and institutional capital projects. Directly comparable in serving healthcare, transportation, and public-sector clients on capital programs.
• Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB): Global independent construction consultancy providing cost management and project advisory services. Comparable as a specialized cost consultancy serving healthcare, higher education, and public-sector clients on capital projects.
• Cumming Group: Construction consultancy specializing in cost management, project management, and owner's representation. Directly comparable as a mid-size owner's rep / cost consultancy serving institutional and public-sector clients.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consultancy providing program management, cost advisory, and owner's rep services as part of a much broader engineering and design portfolio. Comparable in function but operates at vastly greater scale across the same verticals.
• JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) – Project & Development Services: Global real estate services firm with a sizable Project and Development Services division providing owner's rep and cost advisory. Comparable in delivering capital project advisory services for institutional clients, but as part of a broader commercial real estate platform.
• CBRE – Project Management: Global real estate services firm offering project management and owner's representation for institutional and public clients. Comparable in providing capital project advisory as part of a larger diversified real estate services franchise.
• Jacobs Solutions: Global professional services firm with a major program management and capital projects advisory practice (including the CH2M acquisition). Overlaps with TCPG's public-sector and higher-ed project advisory, but at much larger scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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